The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-15
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Scenes at the ObsequIes of the
Anarchists.
ROUTE OF THE PROCESSION
by 100000 People-COmments
on the Occasion.
The Funeral.


squad of the central detail of police wa
on duty this morning at 9 O'Clock
About twenty men had been reserved a
night and spent the day in the station
instead of being assigned to positions Of
the line of march, about 1245 O'Clock
Shortly afterwards word was receives
that the funeral procession had startet
from August Spies late home. Captain
Hubbard called on the men to fall il
and assigned those who had not beer
on night duty to stations along the lint
of march. From Lake Street bridge tx
the corner of Fifth Avenue and Harri
son Street, four men were placed at eacf
intersection. Orders were given tt
stay until the crowd dispersed
and then go home and repor
this evening at 9 o'clock for duty
Fitting mile after mile in the gloom
down to the cold fat earth, i've unseen
soulless figures fleeing in death as from
the one Great Being for whom alone
there can be no law, found hiding
place tonight in darkness at the mos
desolate spot on the prairie's wide ex-
panse. The five CHASTITY figures were
symbols of attempted destruction to the
law. They were the five dead Anar-
chists, Spies. Parsons, Fischer, Engel
and Louis Lingg. Probably 100000
people in the city of their terrible
CT me saw the last public preparations
Tor the final fight to the tomb. Scarcely
more than half the number was ex-
pected. Seven thousand men and
$50 women, aided in the ceremony by
forming IN procession behind them.
Ten thousand people were present in
the barest, emptiest, graveyard
adjacent to Chicago, where the corpses
at last were hidden. Muttered curses
and bitter murmurs of, Throttle the
law" accompanied the parting words
spoken oyer the five lifeless bodies. 1t
was almost to second the exact time,
that forty-eight hour previous, the
scatfold drop fell with August Spies
bl ckest of hearses drew up at the door
the fact that the hearse was just
ready to start at the precise moment
corresponding to the announcement at
the galloWs that Spies had ceased to
breathe. This was the beginning of
the obsequies. The scene is at the ex-
IRENE northwestern corner of the city,
and the route taken resembled nothing
so much as monster black snake,
right to the centre of Chicago
and protruding out and beyond the
southwestern angle. Serted lines of
blackness were formed of human
beings, wedged together into almost
single continuous whole. Off from Mil
waukee Avenue, Spies lived in a little
oasis of well-to-do Americans and
Germans, while the others en-
tombed to-day, had places of abode
scattered along at intervals of five or
six blocks, close to the same thorough
are but in the midst of the most ig-
norant and uncouth classes of Chi
cago's foreign born population. About
I 900 persons, most OF them neighbors
Of Spies, were congregated on the street
and sidewalks of the blocks in which
Spies lived, when the time for departure
arrived. AS at other houses where the
bodies lay, a constant
stream of mourners or curious sight
Seers had been since almost daylight
pouring through the building and view.
ng the livid remains, or gazing
st the weeping relatives. When the
hours anniversary of the
'catfold drop had come, and the sombre
learse was standing patiently at the
curb, the tall, stately form OF Captain
Black, the Anarchists chief counsel
vas seen stepping out through the
,hrong at the Spies threshold; sup
ported on his arm, with her head pill
owed on his shoulder, was clinging. |
,irlish figure, clad in Grape from head |
% foot, the picture of utter woe. The
ace was completely yelled from sight. |
whispers were heard on every
ide: There she is" There's Nina |
Van Zandt." That's Spies' wife"
t was not till the coffin had |
,een placed in the hearse, the imme-
late mourners had entered the carriages |
ind 500 blue adged Turner's had formed |
n ranks ahead, that the crowd discov |
red it's mistake. Calmly seated in the |
irst carriage, without a sign of mourn |
ng in her apparel, or a single trace OF |
,rief on her pale countenance, the face |
vas Enthusiastically that Of Spies youth |
ul proxy bride, but it had suddenly &C |
lnired a dignity and matureness that |
ave an unlooked-for, but far from re-
)ellant aspect, to one of her years. |
aside from this expression, the shspely |
eatures wore peculiar yellowish
,allor. 1t may have been the mere
ancy of observers, but those who saw
he face of Spies as he trod to his place
N the gallows, say the pallor on his
;ountenapce then was exactly that to-
lay on The face of Nina Van Zandt.
'he was appareled IN a well-worn, fur
wrap of dark, wine colored or
purple velvet, a very simply made dress
II black silk, and a small, neat bonnet
o match the wrap. Whole crowds
we're recovering from surprise at Miss
IAN Zandt's demeanor and dress. The
,iack-clad girl who hal accom-
panied Captain Black into the same
arriage with Spies pseudo wi e, threw
Jack her veil and disclosed the tear
tanned features of the dead mans 81 :
er, Gretchen, alongside Nina. and ap-
'arently deriving come consolation
rom the words of cheer spoken now
nd then sat the aged mother of Spies,
Tho seemed to have rather better con-
roll of her grief than the daughter. The
and soon Struck up a mournful dirge
nd the procession started slowly down
Avenue which was lined
nth such mass of people as was
ever seen on it before, Moving slowly